The St. Johns herald., 1887-01-27
. A PROPHETIC DREaM.
Three Thousand Dollars Saved To Hank : hy Q Dream Of the PsyinS-Teller.

The following was taken from the lips
 Of tho pay;ng-telier of New York Bank.
 by 9 r.,p-,,senietIve of the Sun newspaper
 "Y0u ki.oy am the paying-tellerin in our
 bank. Veil, about three Ycsr5 ago. q
 Iuzn who gave his name as Al5eriuS, an Italian, called at the bank late in the afternoon, about ten minutes before He closed the doors. He had q cheek Tor 3.G:e1 r0aGe payable to John A. Jones. ore Of our leading customers and stock hoi1ers.
 i "3fr. Aitertrs was ar emincEtiy re- spoc1abia locking man. and appeared to Se j deeply annoyed when 1 told him that he wouil have 10 he identified and prove his business, connection with Mir. Jones before weHld give him the money. He said he would return in the morning. ''I welt home to dinner without think | fuz again ot the matter. That night had a dream 1 dreant that 1 w.:;,t down early a the bank the next morning, con ! trar!- to ny u8;ial custom. and, Lappeaing : tc think Of the check, ] looked into the 1 book where '5 Q keep thesignat tures of our customers and examined very closely the sigaaiarr C. Mr. Jones. Thea l noticed ehGt had escaped iny attention before. The signature in the book and that on the chsc:; were slightly different.
 ''This nia.ic Elc suspicious, and as 1t waa tAcn nearly an hour before the bank opened, ! sent the messenger up to Mr. Jonez' house on Lexington avenue to ask him Tsl,e: her lIe had drawn such Q check CT ao:. The boy learned there that Nr Jones was got in the city. He had gone to Boston day or so before. Then 1 telezrapied hirn at his hotel in that city, and he wired lle back that the check vas forgery.
 ii must have dreamed this early in the .ucuIng, for when l woke up it was SC clt.Gf!y fixed in my mind that I could not efface it.
 "Of course had no faith in the dream, but i thought t0 make sure about the matter I would go down to the bank early, ard so did. looked immediate ly into the signature book, and, sure enough, there was the same difference in the signatures that had noticed in my dream.
 "I thought this was rather more than 8 coincidence, and so I sent our boy up to Ur. Jones house There was another point Of resemblance between my dream and the reality. He was in Boston. "Ihe moment heard this l made up my mind that my dream was real pres ent!mert, and wired him at his hotel, asking about the check.
 |" h the mean time the bank had been opone,!. and Mr. Albertus. accompanied by trieGd, came In. He was prepared 10 dr::s the money. You have no idea how l waste time waiting for my reply.
 Mind you, had no real reason for re-
 fusi4ig 10 pay the check. The identifica- ton was satisfactory. Tho friend was NIT Jone7' cashier, and he :aid that there was Ho doubt that the check was genuine. and that Mr. Albertus had had considers dealing with Mr. Jones. Still hesi- tated.
 linen Mr. Albertus began to get un- easT ard l got so nervous that could hardly see straight. Just as got the money out to pay 1t over & telegraph boy came in with dispatch.
 While l openedit Mr. Albertus. who seemed to suspect something, ran away, leaving tho cashier and myself together. The message was from Mir. Jones. He said that tho cheek was 0 forgery. The cashier wos fooled. too. 1T it hadn't been for that I would have lost one year. salary.